[mytherin]

The parent is downvoted because they are making an obvious statement that is not productive to the discussion and doing so in a condescending tone.

Free public transport in the title clearly means that using public transport will incur no cost, not that the entirety of the public transport network would require zero funding.

[dgellow]

Funding a system by introducing new taxes is a choice, not necessarily the obvious one. There are other solutions. But it's very likely to be a high tax on local citizens in this specific case, because that's how France work, generally speaking, and what involved politicians suggested in public interviews.

[dgellow]

Funding a system by introducing new taxes is a choice, not necessarily the obvious one. There are other solutions. But it's very likely to be a high tax in this specific case, because that's how France work, generally speaking, and what involved politicians suggested in public interviews.

[JI00912]

It's condescending because I look down on these types of articles.

Journalists should stick to the truth.

I realize you are able to interpret what is says so that "free" means "using public transport will incur no [additional] cost, but people shouldn't have to do that.